# \[ Add filter on video stream \]

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/add-filter-on-video-stream/45141>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [April 15, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/add-filter-on-video-stream/45141 "2015-04-15T15:50:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Nader\_Hassan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/977dab/32.png) [@Nader\_Hassan](https://community.wowza.com/u/Nader_Hassan)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/add-filter-on-video-stream/45141/1 "2015-04-15T15:50:51Z")

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Hello,

I’m new here & I wanted to know if it’s possible to add a “Blur filter” to a video stream ?

I saw that we can reduce the quality of a Stream with the transcoder but I want to add filter, to blur completely a video stream, is that possible with wowza (server-side) ?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![sal\_jefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sal\_jefferson](https://community.wowza.com/u/sal_jefferson)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 9:49am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/add-filter-on-video-stream/45141/2 "2015-04-15T09:49:28Z")

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Hello there and welcome to the Wowza support forum.

The feature you are looking for is not available with the current version of Wowza. Not sure if it will be in the future or not.

An alternative might be to add an image overlay to the stream:

[How to add graphic overlays to live streams with Wowza Transcoder](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-add-graphic-overlays-to-live-streams-with-wowza-transcoder)

Also, you might be able to do this at the encoder. Depending on the encoder you are using. You can do it via FFMPEG, possibly Wirecast.

I hope this is helpful.

Kind regards,

Salvadore

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**Author:** ![sal\_jefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sal\_jefferson](https://community.wowza.com/u/sal_jefferson)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 9:54am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/add-filter-on-video-stream/45141/3 "2015-04-15T09:54:13Z")

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A sample ffmpeg command would be something like this:

```auto
 -i sample.mp4 -vf "boxblur=enable='between(t,0,113)'" -codec:a copy -f flv rtmp://[wowza-ip]:1935/live/myStream
 0,113 (start/end)

```

Salvadore

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**Author:** ![Nader\_Hassan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/977dab/32.png) [@Nader\_Hassan](https://community.wowza.com/u/Nader_Hassan)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 2:47pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/add-filter-on-video-stream/45141/4 "2015-04-16T14:47:04Z")

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Ok I will try with this Thank you.

Badhash

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**Author:** ![Shankar\_Thapa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71c47a/32.png) [@Shankar\_Thapa](https://community.wowza.com/u/Shankar_Thapa)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 10:21am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/add-filter-on-video-stream/45141/5 "2017-05-17T10:21:23Z")

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is it possible now .!??

now its 2017

possible to add, filters like blur, flairs, sparks, pic in pic etc. !?